More On NATO Massacre In Kapisa

Among the dead were seven boys under 14 and an 18-year-old, according to Abdul Mubin Safi, the administrative director of Kapisa province. They were herding sheep less than half a mile from their homes when the bombing happened.
NATO representatives and Afghan officials traveled to the area by helicopter to investigate the incident and returned Friday, said Maj. Jason Waggoner, a NATO spokesman. He said there was no word yet from NATO officials on the joint Afghan-NATO team's whitewash 'findings.'
One member of the team, Mohammad Hussain Khan Sanjani, the chairman of the provincial council, who was reached by phone in Kapisa, said that after talking with people in the village, it seemed that 'misinformation' had been passed to NATO forces.
"These people are involved in animal husbandry; they own sheep and goats and their children went out to feed the animals behind their village under some oak trees," Sanjani said.
France's military high command did not respond to requests for comment on the airstrike in Kapisa.
President Karzai condemned the 'loss of life' in what has become a perfunctory condemnation of such massacres in standard wording.